Rahim Kurwa

Tweet from @laura_n_rod Text: A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them. Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area. Photo: shows a federal agent in a truck pointing a gun

Another incident of federal agents pointing guns at Chicago area residents.

Fact Sheet: Two Years of Israel’s Genocide in Gaza A fact sheet summarizing evidence that Israel has committed acts of genocide in Gaza under the UN Genocide Convention, including deliberate mass killings, starvation, destruction of essential infrastr...

This week marks 2 years since the start of Israel’s brutal genocide in Gaza, where it has taken the lives of tens of thousands of Palestinians.

Read our fact-sheet for a quick summary of what you need to know about Israel’s ongoing genocide.

Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back by Joshua Clark Davis

A bold retelling of the 1960s civil rights struggle through its work against police violence—& a prehistory of both the Black Lives Matter & Blue Lives Matter movements that emerged half a century later.

@joshuaclarkdavis.bsky.social's Police Against the Movement is now available: hubs.ly/Q03Mp5Ss0

Two Years of Genocide: The guilt we live with from the miserable safety of exile Every day, when we turn on the news, we thank God we survived the genocide. And every day, we regret it.

“I don’t want him to think of Gaza as a place of death & destruction. [...] It is a place blessed with geographical & natural diversity. [...] We have everything that makes us the owners of a free country. The only thing stopping us is the occupation.”

I wrote about an under-appreciated aspect of AAUP v. Rubio. It is the first case of the Trump Era to explicitly identify and reject the primary and most pernicious form of speech suppression employed by this Administration: Chill.

balkin.blogspot.com/2025/10/aaup...

I guess I shouldn't be *surprised* but it is making my head spin that the feds have shot two people, with live rounds, killing one of them, in Chicagoland in recent weeks, and in both cases they were very clearly found to be lying about what happened, and essentially nothing is happening about it.

It's not just that they're going to strike down a law against conversion therapy, it's that they're going to do it on behalf of made-up claims from a straw plaintiff who can't honestly show the law affected her at all

International student arrivals to the US dropped 19% this year, the biggest drop on record aside from the 2020 pandemic low.

Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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How ICE Hides Detainees From Their Lawyers ‘It seems like cruelty is the point,’ one attorney said.

"I was talking to [my client detained in the Broadview, IL facility], and his tone changed, and someone asked him who he was talking to,” [Attorney] Herrera said. “And he said, ‘a lawyer.’ And then he told me later that he was made to get off the phone.”

prospect.org/justice/2025...

Michigan’s Mallory McMorrow has shifted her stance on the war in Gaza Mallory McMorrow has shifted her position on the ongoing Middle East conflict.

Mallory McMorrow said she will not take AIPAC support and called the war on Gaza a genocide for the first time at an event in Allegan, Michigan yesterday.

And! You can download the .epub for free from UC Press: www.ucpress.edu/books/indefe...

On Wednesday at 12pm PST, I'll be joining CSU San Bernardino's virtual conversation on policing series to talk about Indefensible Spaces: Policing and the Struggle for Housing. This is an open zoom event at: csusb.zoom.us/j/89247287522. Find out more here: www.csusb.edu/event/590732.

Michel DeGraff, a tenured professor of linguistics at MIT, discusses how his proposal to teach a class on language & decolonization in Haiti, Israel, and Palestine was denied. He faced significant repercussions: he was removed from his department, had a pay raise withheld, and his salary frozen.

In “Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition,” Shah provides a critical discussion about the intersection between detention, the prison industrial complex, and anti-immigrant racism

Rent Debtors Strike Against Abusive Corporate Landlord The Debt Collective is leading the charge against the real estate behemoth Equity Residential.

A group of tenants with rent debt are refusing to pay Equity Residential, one of the largest corporate landlords. The campaign’s goals are to win debt cancellation and spur regulatory action to hold corporate landlords accountable. Michael Friedrich reports:
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perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.

There is little doubt that we are headed toward the further deployment of active duty military against Trump's political opponents. This is beyond the framers' worst nightmares. Pure tyranny and it must be resisted.

Zohran posing for a group photo with ten people, including Palestinian New Yorkers.

This afternoon, I sat with Palestinian New Yorkers in Astoria and listened to what they and their families have endured as the genocide in Gaza continues, funded by our government.

In the face of immeasurable grief, they have showed unbreakable resilience.

This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.

I’m glad Van Jones apologized for his sick joking about dead kids in Gaza.

But the problem goes deeper: he spread Netanyahu propaganda that the mass killings of civilians in Gaza—including 20K+ kids—is Iranian fake news.

It’s not the students and young people who are fooled. It’s Van Jones.

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

The problem with elected Dems is not just age. Schatz is 52. But he 1. likely has internalized and sincerely believes the Polling-ism strategies 2. understands that advancing within the party (he wants to be Senate Dem Leader) is helped by publicly articulating this perspective.

Miller’s attempt to deem The Left terrorism was obviously where this was going and why, in addition to it being intellectually and morally correct, it was important to resist efforts to classify pro-Palestinian groups as such. You reject the politicization of “terrorism” or you accept it for all.

Wow, recalling my political history, and in a time of strife. Not a good look

For those lucky enough to not know this is a neo-Nazi meme normally found on TRS and the Daily Stormer being shared by the official DHS account.

Pretty incredible own goal by liberal institutions and many Democratic electeds to crush the exact type of protests in 2024 that would’ve been the most effective way to slow or stop ICE incursions into American cities in 2025

Local PDs I saw at Broadview today: Forest Park, Maywood, Hickory Hills, Willow Springs, Bedford Park, Woodridge, Lisle, Bensenville, Oak Brook, Oakbrook Terrace (in addition to State Police, Cook County Sherrifs, Broadview PD)

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

Jesus Christ. DHS has held this guy in the hospital handcuffed to a bed and under constant guard for over a MONTH without ANY warrant or even ANY steps taken towards putting him into the removal system!